Are the Liberals ‘brownwashing’ the Victorian election?
There is an unusually high number of Liberal candidates from migrant or ethnic backgrounds in this year's state election. But almost all of them are in unwinnable seats, writes Crikey's Victorian...
View ArticleIs the Liberal Party’s goose cooked?
Crikey readers have their say on Abbott's long presser, the great source of energy just above our heads, and the future of the Right.
View ArticlePoll Bludger: could the Greens be coming for Turnbull?
The Greens' electoral success in Prahran was due to a number of demographic factors, with the seat an interesting mixture of hip young things and old money. Sounds like a certain federal Sydney seat we...
View ArticleLiberals blow Labor away in chase for cash
The Liberal Party blitzed Labor in fundraising in 2013-14 -- but all sides managed to secure a remarkable quarter of a billion dollars in funding.
View ArticlePoll Bludger: ‘Mr Nice Guy’ Mike Baird propping up popularity of embattled PM
NSW Liberal Premier Mike Baird is seen by many as a down-to-earth everyman to the extent that, instead of Tony Abbott's image dragging Baird down, Baird's popularity is lifting Tony up.
View ArticleChopper creed: Bishop’s long history of flying on our dime
Bronwyn Bishop has long been using taxpayer funding to fly to Liberal fundraisers. And she has long not cared what you think about it, freelance writer Luke Miller explains.
View ArticleRundle: so much for liberalism
The individual is paramount. Except when the individual screws up, in which case it is the system that is to blame.
View ArticleRundle: vote for the schlub
The Labor Party could truly become the party of the future. If only.
View ArticleMedia release: statement from the office of Dyson Heydon
A brief statement regarding the matter of Justice Dyson Heydon's connection to a Liberal Party fundraiser, as sent to writer and satirist Ben Pobjie.
View ArticleWhere to now for Tony’s captain’s pick? Heydon saga from the sublime to the...
Dyson Heydon says he couldn't possibly have known the event he was due to speak at was a Liberal fundraiser, despite numerous emails detailing that fact. Now he'll decide whether to recuse himself from...
View ArticleRevealed: the Heydon speech we will never hear
Dyson Heydon had to pull out of a speech to a Liberal Party fundraiser, so we'll never know what he was going to say. But Crikey's super-sleuth has deciphered some of his notes to give us some clues as...
View ArticleAbbott, like Menzies, is a trigger-happy hound dog, baying for blood
Liberal Party leaders have a history of agitating for war. Why is that?
View ArticleCanning pork watch: can a Hastie funding spree save Abbott’s bacon?
Just five days out from polling day, the government has announced close to $120 million in funding for the Canning electorate. Will it be enough to save Abbott?
View ArticleIsentia Index: Sales of onions up as Australia memes the heck outta #libspill
There was only one game in town this week ... spill time!
View ArticleShould Turnbull fear a Bernardi party?
There have long been suggestions that Cory Bernardi might defect to Family First, but might he start a completely new party by cleaving off the Coalition's hard-right conservatives?
View ArticleDissension in the ranks: NSW Young Libs censor members
The NSW Young Liberals are attempting to discipline a member for speaking out on Facebook.
View ArticlePoll Bludger: Liberal lords defend their fiefdoms, crush preselection reform
Grand visions of reform had been proposed to address a perceived crisis of democratic legitimacy in modern party politics. But the powerful like their fiefdoms.
View ArticleLiberal Democrats? Labour Coalition? Skirting the rules of the party name game
Issues surrounding party names have been smouldering for some time, and they are about to reach a head with the proposed new Labour Coalition political party.
View ArticleRundle: desperate Labor tries to claw back the left as it bleeds Green
With Di Natale to the left and Turnbull to the right, Labor needs new policies (and fast) if it wants to be in with a chance for 2019.
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